Still, the New Deal offered Mexican Americans some help. The Farm Security Administration established camps for migrant farm workers in California, and the CCC and WPA hired unemployed Mexican Americans on relief jobs.

Headed by Harry Hopkins, the WPA provided paid jobs to the unemployed during the Great Depression in the United States, while building up the public infrastructure of the US, such as parks, schools and roads.

The programs focused on what historians refer to as the “3 R’s”: relief for the unemployed and poor, recovery of the economy back to normal levels, and reform of the financial system to prevent a repeat depression.

Half of New Mexico’s residents found work in New Deal programs. They built dams, roads, courthouses, schools and parks, bound books, stuffed mattresses, painted murals, taught music, built furniture. They changed the state in ways that are felt even now, 75 years after the beginning of the New Deal programs.

In New Mexico, three of the most-altered, major rivers are the San Juan River, the Animas River, and the Santa Cruz River, at 63 percent, 60 percent, and 57 percent, respectively. River degradation is being driven both by development within waterways and in the surrounding floodplains.

New Mexico River Map Gila, San Juan, Pecos, Rio Grande, and Canadian are the major rivers of New Mexico.

Elephant Butte Lake

TNWs in New Mexico include the Canadian River, Cimarron River, Pecos River, Rio Chama, Rio Grande, San Juan River, and Navajo Lake.

New Mexico Rivers Shown on the Map: Canadian River, Cimarron River, Corrizo Creek, Gallinas River, Gila River, Mora River, Pecos River, Rio Chama, Rio Grande, Rio Hondo, Rio Penasco, Rio Puerco, Rio Salado, Rio San Jose, San Francisco River, San Juan River, Ute Creek and Vermejo River.

New Mexico relies on both groundwater and surface water sources, but about 87 percent of New Mexico’s public water supply comes from ground water. No other southwestern state gets such a large percentage of its domestic water from groundwater sources.

Rio Grande

org. On the Santa Fe River in High Springs, Ginnie Springs is one of the clearest springs in Florida. The 72-degree water is perfect for river tubing, swimming, snorkeling and scuba diving.

About 30 minutes

The river isn’t actually disappearing, though. It is flowing into a sink in the karst limestone formation which underlies this area known as the Cody Scarp. The River Sink / River Rise system in O’Leno is the largest swallet-to-resurgence system in Florida.

According to the Florida Fish & Wildlife Commission alligators are most active when temperatures are between 82° to 92°F. The Ichetucknee eventually merges into the Santa Fe River, where the water’s color and temperature are very different. You will see alligators here.

Lake Santa Fe

It is not known for manatees, and the spring is smaller, though in my opinion more scenic than the Blue Springs near Deland.

nine springs

121 km

It flows over 200 miles from south Georgia’s Okefenokee Swamp to the Gulf of Mexico, on the border of Dixie and Levy counties. It is fed by countless springs, each flowing from the Floridan Aquifer, as well as tributaries like the Santa Fe River, the Ichetucknee River, and the (northern) Withlacoochee River.

There are two Withlacoochee Rivers in Florida. One flows from Georgia and joins the Suwannee River near Madison. The other, a larger stream, flows from the Green Swamp in central Florida and empties into the Gulf of Mexico at Yankeetown in Levy County.

In the upper Withlacoochee River, flow is primarily dependent on surface water inputs, while farther downstream the river is increasingly fed by groundwater. In fact, Madison Blue Spring is the major source of base flow in the lower Withlacoochee River (Giese and Franklin 1996a).

6.6 feet

Santa Fe’s water sources are the Rio Grande, a few groundwater wells, and two reservoirs within the Santa Fe National Forest. The reservoirs make up one-third of Santa Fe’s water supply.

3-mile

The headwaters of the river are Lake Santa Fe, near Keystone Heights. The Santa Fe River is usually a slow-flowing river. This slow speed, combined with the abundant leaf-drop from nearby trees, especially Bald Cypress, leads to a very dark-brown river due to dissolved tannins.